Barbara Hershey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1948-02-05 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Barbara Hershey
Biography
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948) is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".
Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall's melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010).
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Acting
Eugene the Marine
as Frances
(2024)
Strange Darling
as Genevieve
(2022)
9 Bullets
as Lacey
(2021)
The Manor
as Judith
(2020)
(2018)
Insidious: The Last Key
as Lorraine Lambert
(2016)
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax
(2015)
Childless
as Natalie
(2014)
Sister
as Connie
(2013)
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert
(2012)
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase
(2011)
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert
(2011)
Answers to Nothing
as Marilyn
(2010)
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
(2010)
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer
(2009)
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
(2008)
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley
(2008)
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda
(2008)
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody
(2007)
Love Comes Lately
as Rosalie
(2005)
The Entity Files
as Self
(2004)
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker
(2004)
Paradise
as Elizabeth Paradise
(2003)
11:14
as Norma
(2003)
Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule
(2003)
Hunger Point
as Marsha Hunter
(2002)
The Nature of Lantana
as Self
(2001)
Lantana
as Valerie Somers
(2000)
(1999)
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover
(1999)
Passion
as Rose Grainger
(1999)
Drowning on Dry Land
as Kate
(1999)
Outer Space
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1998)
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana
(1998)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Marcella Willis
(1998)
The Staircase
as Mother Madalyn
(1997)
(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle
(1996)
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy
(1995)
Last of the Dogmen
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
(1993)
Falling Down
as Beth
(1993)
Swing Kids
as Frau Müller
(1993)
Abraham
as Sara
(1993)
Splitting Heirs
as Duchess Lucinda
(1993)
A Dangerous Woman
as Frances
(1992)
The Public Eye
as Kay Levitz
(1992)
Stay the Night
as Jimmie Sue Finger
(1991)
Defenseless
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
(1991)
Paris Trout
as Hanna Trout
(1990)
Tune in Tomorrow...
as Aunt Julia
(1990)
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
(1990)
A Killing in a Small Town
as Candy Morrison
(1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Mary Magdalene
(1988)
Beaches
as Hillary Whitney Essex
(1988)
A World Apart
as Diana Roth
(1988)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
(1987)
Tin Men
as Nora Tilley
(1987)
Shy People
as Ruth
(1987)
Passion Flower
as Julia Gaitland
(1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Lee
(1986)
Hoosiers
as Myra Fleener
(1985)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
as Lili Damita
(1984)
The Natural
as Harriet Bird
(1983)
The Right Stuff
as Glennis Yeager
(1983)
The Nightingale
as The Maid
(1982)
The Entity
as Carla Moran
(1982)
Working
as Call Girl
(1981)
Take This Job and Shove It
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
(1981)
Americana
as Jess's Daughter
(1980)
The Stunt Man
as Nina Franklin
(1980)
Angel on My Shoulder
as Julie
(1979)
A Man Called Intrepid
as Madelaine
(1977)
Flood!
as Mary Cutler
(1977)
Just a Little Inconvenience
as Nikki Klausing
(1977)
Sunshine Christmas
as Cody Blanks
(1977)
In the Glitter Palace
as Ellen Lange
(1976)
The Last Hard Men
as Susan Burgade
(1976)
Trial by Combat
as Marion Evans
(1975)
You and Me
as Waitress
(1975)
Diamonds
as Sally
(1974)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
(1973)
Love Comes Quietly
as Angela
(1972)
Boxcar Bertha
as Boxcar Bertha
(1972)
(1971)
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Jane Kauffman
(1970)
The Baby Maker
as Tish Gray
(1970)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Nella Mundine
(1969)
Last Summer
as Sandy
(1969)
Heaven with a Gun
as Leloopa
(1968)
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Stacy Iverson